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Does anyone else get the impression that Lord Dunsany is neglected, not by readers, who clearly love his work and want it, but by his heirs or estate or whoever manages the rights to his work? I'm repeatedly amazed at how difficult it is to find decent editions of his work, with good paper...

Cordwainer Smith's short oeuvre made me cry, a rarity in my reading.

It seems no one's mentioned Brian Stableford's translations yet. This man has been translating Symbolist/Decadent, fantasy, horror, sci-fi from France for decades now. He's translated upwards of 100 books, including lots of French early sci-fi pioneers...

Actually, after some hesitation, I went and bought a DMR volume called Heroes of Atlantis & Lemuria (2019). It collects Wellman's stories about one Conan-like hero called Kardios. It's not strictly a Wellman volume, it also contains stories by Frederick Arnold Kummer Jr. and Leigh Brackett. I'm...

I found the Enderby story very bland and already I've forgotten what it was about. Of Judge Pursuivant I especially liked "The Black Drama", for the ingenious way he uses Lord Byron in that story. It reminds me of a story in WTW where Edgar Poe is the protagonist. Already in the Pursuivant...

Days ago I started Lonely Vigils. It started slow, but the John Thunstone character has me pleasantly spellbound.

In the novel, an ancient god has lived on Earth for millennia. In the 19c, before dying in its current form it finds a minion who spend the next 100 years carrying out preparations. These are the "ceremonies" that will help the god be reborn from the depths of the Earth, the planet being a sort...

Apropos of Machen, I just remembered that he wrote a prose poem called "The Ceremony" that bears more than a passing resemblance to Klein's novel. Although he name-drops "The White People" a lot, I don't believe he mentioned this short work: Ornaments in Jade/The Ceremony - Wikisource, the free...

And today I finished The Ceremonies. I was loving it so much I atypically used the morning to finish the last 50 pages. The ending in my view is weak, but after such a good build-up and a sustained sense of dread, it'd be difficulty to meet expectations. I think Sarr's mother was underused, if...

No disagreement about The Invisibles, it's crazy stuff! I'm nearly certain I owe Morrison the discovery of Robert Anton Wilson. But why do you think Promethea is weak on plot or story? I know it's a popular take on the series; many think it's just Moore giving magic lectures; I personally...

One or two years ago I finally bought the DC 1,000,000 omnibus, a dream come true: to read my favorite DC crossover in its entirety, when for a whole month he entire DC line was plotted by Morrison's mad ideas. Sadly not every writer rose to his standards, but the scope of the thing was...

What Alan Moore and J. H. Williams III do in Promethea, in terms of marrying words and images, making full use of he medium's potential, ranks as one of the trippiest comics ever. Moore's ideas on magic were never more clearly presented than here. And the world-building is insanely immersive.

Lots of years ago I got The Spider: King of Crooks collection; it has been superseded by Rebellion's The Spider: Syndicate of Crime. It's wild to think the bulk of the series was written by Jerry Siegel, Superman's co-creator!

Last year I discovered the Astro City Metrobook volumes. The first volume was one of the best superhero comics I'd read in a long time. Since then I've been reading the series slowly. Next to get is vol. 4. Many, many years I read and liked Kurt Busiek's Marvels, but aside from that I barely...

I'm 350 pages into The Ceremonies, the breeziest, briskiest 600-page novel I've read in a long time. Despite Klein's refusal to keep up a mystery, it's so propulsive! The slow unfolding of the Old One's plans, so transparently narrated, takes none of the suspense away from it. It's also...

I'm 100 pages into The Ceremonies; it's remarkable how fast-paced it is, so much has been covered already in terms of backstory, setting and characters. An impressive move, narrative-wise, is that Klein doesn't bother to keep up a mystery. We know immediately who the Old One is, more or less...

I've started The Ceremonies today.

Last purchase of March: Long recommend by Borges; but it took me a while to find this edition, which contains the "Episodes" often not included in other editions.

Fair enough, he's famous for lots of books; though all genre work in relation to the realist tendency of his era.

In Don Quixote's second part Don Quixote and Sancho keep meeting people who know them because they've read the first part. After Lolita, Nabokov got a knack for putting references to his most famous novel, namely in Pale Fire and Ada or Ardor.